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"Fires have ravaged the dry regions of Spain, Portugal and the South of France, which have been the victims of this summer’s extremely low rainfall. Other regions, such as the Vosges, have also been victims of the heatwave.
I am therefore in favour of including fire prevention in Forest Focus, even if, in my opinion, the best firefighting tool is still the regulation on sustainable development. An entire section of the regulation deals with forestry, involving an annual subsidy of EUR 450 million.
In comparison, the Forest Focus budget seems very low. Following the COREPER compromise, only EUR 61 million have been allocated over four years to fund actions in the fifteen Member States. Spread as thinly as that, this sum will not be very effective in preventing fires.
That will be all the more the case, given that measures designed to promote the harmonised collection, processing and validation of data and to improve the understanding of forests are to be added to fire prevention.
Forest Focus should, in my view, not replace or compete with the regulation on sustainable development but supplement it by providing for the gathering of data on forests.
In conclusion, the question arises as to the appropriateness of bestowing new remits upon a regulation that is already underfunded and overburdened. Are we really focusing on our forests?"@en1
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